56 Smoothies for Weight Loss

Packed with essential nutrients that keep your skin, hair, bones, and heart healthy, there’s virtually no prep work or cleanup with smoothies. But not just any drink will do. In this collection of weight loss smoothies, you’ll find something to satisfy every craving from a hearty breakfast that satisfies to a classic pie-inspired dessert. You’ll also find muscle-building protein, satiating fats, and digestion-aiding fiber in these scrumptious sips.

Since we’ve taken care of scouting the nutritional winners, all you have to do is pick a recipe, start the blender, and enjoy!

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Peanut Butter and Jelly Protein Smoothie

If you’re a big fan of the classic childhood sandwich, you’ve got to give this recipe a try—it’s like sipping a little bit of salty-sweet heaven through a straw. Blending frozen berries with all-natural peanut butter, vanilla protein, rolled oats and soy milk helps create the protein-packed delicious taste—without tons of excess calories. If you’re not a fan of soy milk, feel free to sub in any type of unsweetened milk you prefer. It won’t alter the taste or nutrition profile much, and will retain its title of one of our best weight loss smoothies.

Spinach Flax Protein Smoothie

This is the spinach smoothie for people who don’t like spinach—but want to. Thanks to the addition of mango, pineapple, and banana, you won’t even taste the leafy green—but you’ll still reap all of its health benefits. In fact, this drink serves up 33 percent of the day’s vitamin A—most of which comes from the leaves. The addition of chia seeds and flax provides four grams of satiating fiber so be sure to keep those in the mix if you’re looking to sip as much protein as possible.

Key Lime Pie Shake

Key Lime pie may taste great, but with ingredients like heavy cream, sweetened condensed milk, butter, and sugar it’s anything but great for your waistline. This shake, on the other hand, is low in sugar and overflowing with 42 grams of muscle-building protein—that’s more than a day’s worth of the nutrient for someone who’s not very active and nearly half of what you’ll need if you’re a religious gym rat. We know the addition of cottage cheese may sound a bit strange, but that’s what gives this drink its satisfying milkshake-esque consistency. If you’re sensitive to dairy, swap in tofu to achieve the same texture. To keep your drink as healthy as possible, nix the pudding mix and xanthan gum—they only add calories and chemicals you don’t need.

Skinny High Protein Oreo Milkshake

Fat-free cottage cheese, skim milk, cookies, vanilla and a touch of Stevia team up to create a mouthwatering concoction that only tastes sinful. While it is a bit high in sugar, 13 grams are the naturally occurring variety from the dairy, so it won’t throw your diet off track. Although this drink shouldn’t be your everyday go-to—it does contain Oreos, after all—it’s an excellent alternative whenever a craving for something sweet strikes. Opting for this weight loss smoothie over a Dairy Queen Oreo Cookie Blizzard of the same size will save you 20 grams of fat and 48 grams of sugar!

Sunrise Smoothie

You’ll be whisked away on a mini mental-vacation the second you start sipping this tropical-tasting smoothie. Don’t let the high carb and sugar count scare you off; it’s coming from berries, an orange and banana—all vitamin- and fiber-rich produce that will keep you trim and healthy.

This minty sweet shake allows you to enjoy the taste of chocolate peppermint bark no matter what time of year it is—and without all the sugar and fat. One of our top weight loss smoothies may taste like dessert, but thankfully, it doesn’t have the same waist-expanding effects. Top your drink with a dollop of Greek yogurt to take the presentation and protein count to the next level.

Almond Butter Protein Smoothie

Made with just four ingredients, this smoothie will take you no time at all to whip up. The almond milk and nut butter provide a solid hit of natural protein while the chia seeds lend a boost of antioxidants and heart-protecting omega-3s. Enjoy this as a healthy breakfast on the go or an afternoon snack. To kick your shake up a notch, add a few shakes of cinnamon. It will not only heighten the drink’s taste, but also zap stubborn belly fat and help stabilize your blood sugar, which can ward off diet-derailing cravings.

Coffee Banana Protein Smoothie

What do yogurt, bananas, and coffee all have in common? They’re all delicious breakfast go-tos that join together to create this energy-boosting protein smoothie. The mix of caffeine, natural sugar, and protein is ideal after a tough morning workout. If you’re looking for a bit more protein or a thicker texture, add a bit more yogurt or some 2% milk.

Grape and Blueberry Protein Smoothie

If you’re not big into the idea of using nutrition powders—or you’ve simply run of out your go-to—you’ll love this creative recipe. The blogger calls for a scrambled and blended egg in lieu of whey or plant protein, which is a fat-incinerating idea we totally love! The egg’s protein aids muscle recovery and the choline in the yolk fights fat cells to give you that lean look you crave. As an added bonus, the berries and grapes provide more than a day’s worth of vitamin C, which aids trim-down efforts further by warding off cortisol, a pesky stress hormone that triggers the storage of fat.

French Toast Protein Shake

The fresh French toast taste you love with a lot more protein and a fraction of the fat and calories—now that’s something worth waking up for! Though we love the idea of this shake, we’re not so keen on the recommended three to five packets of Stevia. Since the sweetener is so much sweeter than sugar, we suggest starting with two packets and slowly adding more if you think it’s needed. The less you can get away with using, the better.

Berry Oat Smoothie

Sometimes you’re just not in the mood for oatmeal, no matter how good it is for you. This smoothie blends plenty of antioxidant-rich blueberries with oats to ensure you still get the benefits and stay full all the way through to lunchtime. Just make sure you’re using one of our best yogurts for weight loss in your at-home version.

Chocolate Peanut Butter Banana Breakfast Shake

Frozen bananas and peanut butter team up to give this smoothie a rich, milkshake-like consistency that will make you think it’s sinful. When you use unsweetened almond milk, though, it’s packed with protein without sky-high sugar counts found in other smoothies.

Blueberry Almond Butter Smoothie

If you’re looking for a meal-replacement smoothie, look no further. This one’s overflowing with protein from rich almond butter and antioxidants from frozen blueberries. With over 18 grams of protein and a hefty dose of fiber, cravings won’t come crawling back an hour later.

Raw Chocolate Smoothie

Raw cacao is different from that supermarket chocolate in two very important ways: it’s packed with powerful antioxidants and boasts a surprisingly high amount of fiber. Paired with a portioned amount of honey, it’s as sweet and indulgent as what you’re used to, except it’s actually good for you.

Raw Banana Bread Shakes

You’ll get all the warm, comforting flavor of the weekend breakfast staple without any of the flour or butter when you pick this smoothie. Plus, walnuts boast healthy omega-3s, protein, and fiber to keep you satiated.

CARROT CAKE SMOOTHIE

This carrot-cake smoothie is rich in healthy fats: Polyunsaturated fatty acids, like those in walnuts, may increase diet-induced calorie burn and resting metabolic rate. And walnuts have more heart-healthy omega-3 fatty acids than any other nut! Bonus: One cup of this smoothie provides a day’s worth of Vitamin A.

Grasshopper Pie

Fresh spinach and mint leaves create the green hue of this pie-inspired shake. Besides color, these greens carry loads of healthy vitamins and thylakoids, compounds found in spinach that have been shown to reduce cravings and promote weight loss. A grasshopper pie isn’t complete without the chocolate, and the added cocoa powder has antidepressant powers due to the presence of polyphenols, according to a study in the Journal of Psychopharmacology.

Pear Power

The fall harvest produces many well-known superfoods, like pumpkins and apples, but this recipe utilizes the commonly overlooked pear. This seasonal fruit earns its super-status because it’s rich in vitamin C, antioxidants, fiber, and hunger-fighting pectin, a soluble fiber that helps slow digestion. The cinnamon adds an extra anti-inflammatory punch to warm up the crisp notes of the pear.

PB&J Protein

If you’re a big fan of the classic childhood sandwich, you’ve got to give this recipe a try—it’s like sipping a little bit of salty-sweet heaven through a straw. Blending frozen berries with all-natural peanut butter, vanilla protein, rolled oats and soy milk helps create the protein-packed delicious taste—without tons of excess calories. If you’re not a fan of soy milk, feel free to sub in any type of unsweetened milk you prefer. It won’t alter the taste or nutrition profile much.

Avocado and Lime Green Tea

If you’re not into green juice, why not try a green smoothie instead? This blogger packs healthy greens into this recipe, from broccoli to parsley to zucchini to kale. Green foods are considered superfoods because they contain a high amount of antioxidants, plenty of vitamin C (136% DV!), and essential phytonutrients for detoxification. Pile on the added benefits from catechins, the antioxidant found in green tea that hinders the storage of belly fat, and you’ll leave breakfast feeling slim and refreshed.

Strawberry Beet

If the bright pink color doesn’t wake you up, the increased blood flow to your muscles after gulping it down will! The nitrates found in beets thin out your blood so it can flow more easily to hard-working muscles, increasing endurance and lowering blood pressure. According to a study in the journal Nutrients, tossing back beet juice 90 minutes before a sweat session can help you work out longer. If you’re working your way to a flat belly in the gym, make sure to add this recipe to the list of pre-workout snacks.

Grapefruit Green

We don’t know about you, but the green drink can often become monotonous. Brighten up your green routine with this Grapefruit Green choice. Loaded with fiber, potassium, and manganese from the apple and banana – which adds a creamy, natural sweetness – this shake is livened up by the addition of tart grapefruit. Even better, using its juice to thin it out helps to keep this drink light and refreshing.

Pumpkin Pecan Pie

Who needs carrots when you have this? This Pumpkin Pecan Pie flavor provides a whopping 583% of your daily vitamin A needs along with 18 grams of protein. Next time you’re craving an extra slice of pie, whip this up for a healthy alternative.

Digestive Aid

This one combines the bloat-busting properties of ginger, fennel, and spirulina with hydrating fresh mint, cucumber, and coconut water for a light treat that aids your digestive system. Spirulina is a blue-green algae dietary supplement that’s rich in protein. A study published in World Journal of Dairy and Food Sciences found spirulina effective in growing cultures of the helpful probiotic Lactobacillus acidophilus while killing harmful gut bacteria. Paired with the flat-belly effects of ginger, this spirulina smoothie will help get rid of bloat and gas so you can feel slim and lean.

Clementine Sunshine

This creamsicle-inspired shake is sunshine in a glass. Even with only four ingredients (clementines, ice, almond milk, and salt), this drink still offers around 240% of your daily value of vitamin C and has almost no fat.

Key Lime Pie Breakfast

This low-cal treat is the perfect addition to your morning routine. Adding a mango heightens this shake’s tropical flavor and sweetness to perfectly complement the tart lime. Instead of whipped cream, top this off with a little lime zest – the skin of limes is rich in D-limonene, a compound that has been shown to soothe heartburn and acid reflux.

Matcha Mint Chip

This green delight earns its bright color from mint leaves and matcha powder, a tea that bursts with anti-aging antioxidants and powerful metabolism-boosting compounds. Unlike the ice cream flavor — which uses sugar and milk — this shake is sweetened by ripe bananas and made creamy with avocado and almond milk. Top it off with cacao nibs as a sugar-free sub for the chocolate chips, and this drink will quiet your chocolate cravings and leave you energized.

Healthy Peanut Butter Cup

Anything with “healthy” and “peanut butter cup” in its name sounds like a trick, but this is actually a surprisingly slimming treat! With 46% of your daily calcium needs and 8 grams of protein, this can double as breakfast or dessert. Looking to boost the protein content for a post-workout snack? Using peanut flour instead of peanut butter and you’ll also cut the fat content in half.

Kale Ginger Detox

If your holiday season has been filled with butter-loaded dishes and sweet treats (whose hasn’t?), lucky for you, this is the perfect way to reset your system after weeks of fat and sugar abuse. With nutrients like immune-boosting cinnamon, bloat-banishing ginger, heart-healthy chia seeds, fat-burning bananas, and fiber-rich blueberries, this is a perfect balance of warm and fresh flavors that will leave you feeling refreshed, clean, and satisfied.

Blueberry Coconut Lime

This recipe boosts your metabolism because it is loaded with protein (greek yogurt) to burn calories when paired with exercise, fiber (almonds) that elevates your metabolic rate because it makes your body work harder to digest, and blueberries that are loaded with the metabolism-boosting antioxidant anthocyanin.

Matcha Shake

For an incredible start to your morning, this drink is smooth and creamy from the soy milk and banana and brightened by the watermelon. Adding chia seeds adds a healthy dose of omega-3s. To get the most bang for your nutritional buck, sip this before a workout—matcha contains compounds called catechins that can help trigger the release of fat from your body’s cells and speed up the liver’s ability to turn stored fat into energy.

Carrot Pear Lavender

We’re loving the unlikely flavor combinations from this blogger. She mixes fruit (pear) and vegetables (carrots) in an appealing and refreshing way. This recipe will make your body and mind happy: the carrots act to keep you satisfied thanks to their high water content, antioxidants, and vitamins, while the lavender will help to boost your mood and reduces fatigue.

Green Apple Pie

This silky smoothie tastes like apple pie in a glass. Rather than resorting to milks or sugary bananas, it’s is made creamy by silken tofu and packs in 18 grams of protein without the added protein powder.

Radish Detox

We’ve traditionally leaned on superfoods like kale, spinach, and bananas in our health drinks. Instead, this recipe employs a more underrated healthy food: radishes. Although radishes are untraditional ingredients, this low-cal drink reaps the benefits of both the radishes and the leaves, which include being able to reduce levels of bad cholesterol and insulin and boost good LDL cholesterol, according to a study in Nutrients.

Kiwi Basil

Take a step out of your comfort zone with this incredibly quirky combo. This creamy sip is mellowed by the basil and banana, but zesty from the grapefruit and kiwi. Certainly satisfying your sweet tooth with 46 grams of sugar, the natural sweetness won’t bloat your belly. The tropical kiwi fruit is the reason this recipe has vitamin C, which helps the body oxidize fat during moderate-intensity exercise, according to a study published in the journal Nutrition & Metabolism.

Raspberry Coconut

Need to cool down after a hot day at the beach or killer workout? Lap up this refreshing, tropical-inspired drink. The best part? The raspberries used the give it its signature flavor are packed with polyphenols, powerful natural chemicals that aid rapid weight loss and even stop fat from forming!

Vanilla Date

No time to sit down to eat after your sweat session? Whip up this drink as a delicious, indulgent-tasting post-workout meal. After a workout, the body craves a combination of fast-acting carbohydrates and protein to jump-start the recovery process, and this provides just those very nutrients. Though the sugar count looks high, all of the sweet stuff is coming from the fruit, so as long as you don’t have a health condition like diabetes, there’s no need to sweat it!

Spiced Butternut Apple

Thanks to the squash, bananas, and apple blended into this fall-inspired cup, this drink provides a major hit of nutrients, including vitamins A, B6, and C, which has been shown to fight off cortisol, a hormone that causes belly fat.

Almond Butter Spinach

Bicep-building spinach and almond butter (one of the most potent belly-fat bouncers of the food world) makes this sweet and creamy shake a nutritional powerhouse. And thanks to the addition of pineapple, you won’t taste the leafy greens in your cup in the slightest.

Superfood Power

Filled with a plethora of superfoods, and bursting with a light, refreshing flavor, this dairy-free, high-fiber smoothie is far from ordinary. Aside from its double-decker, Instagram-worthy appearance, this sip calls for two of our best fruits for fat loss: apples and strawberries—it doesn’t get much better than that!

Raspberry Cheesecake

A typical slice of raspberry cheesecake from a restaurant can have an upwards of 930 waist-widening calories, with the majority of those coming from sugar and fat—not what you want to be eating if you’re trying to work off those love handles. Next time a dessert craving strikes, make this instead. It may not taste exactly the same, but it’s close enough to satisfy your taste buds.

Chocolate Covered Cherry Protein

To ax the added sugar from this recipe, swap the suggested Chobani Black Cherry yogurt for a plain Greek variety and use cocoa powder in lieu of chocolate syrup. Then, to amp up the cherry flavor, add an extra handful of those heart-healthy, slimming cherries.

Chai Gingerbread

Kick off the holidays right, with this high-fiber, protein-rich sip, inspired by the season’s signature flavor: gingerbread! Free of the excess fat and added sugars typically found in gingerbread treats, this chai-infused, vitamin C-packed concoction will do right by your body. And speaking of tea, stay warm—and trim—through the winter with the help of these powerful and delicious weight loss teas.

Cinnamon Roll

There’s no denying that a cinnamon roll makes for a mouthwatering breakfast, but it’s not a meal that will keep you satiated or fuel your flat belly efforts. When you whip this up you’ll get the sweet, slightly-burnt flavor you love, without derailing your diet. That’s what we call a win-win!

Maple Cinnamon Blueberry

Inspired by the flavors of a backwoods cabin and blueberry pancakes, food blogger Brianne created this sippable treat for your taste buds. The recipe calls for a dairy-free yogurt alternative, which can easily be substituted with a dairy-based yogurt to amp up the calcium count. We’re fans of Chobani Simply 100 Blueberry Greek Yogurt, so much so in fact, that we named it one of our best yogurts for weight loss.

Eggnog Smoothie

If you want to accelerate your holiday weight gain in the spirit of Santa, a classic eggnog is sure to do the trick. With ingredients like sugar, eggs, whipping cream, and bourbon, Nog is the worst thing to happen to eggs since Humpty Dumpty. One cup can easily exceed 350 calories and 10 grams of saturated fat. Our suggestion? Celebrate the season with this Christmas-inspired treat instead. Not only will doing so cut your calorie intake in half and keep nearly 9 grams of artery-clogging fat out of your body, but it will also provide a quarter of the day’s calcium and an alphabet of vitamins needed to keep you healthy through the chilly winter.

Hawaiian Piña Colada

Every afternoon should be celebrated with a colorful umbrella drink—whether or not you’re basking in the tropics. Take a mental vacation with this piña colada flavored creation, complete with a cheery cherry on top.

Blackberry Cinnamon

Packed with belly-filling fiber and manganese, a mineral that’s essential for energy production, this recipe is sure to satisfy your desire for a decadent dessert while simultaneously keeping those pre-lunch munchies at bay. If you’re looking for more healthy breakfast options, check out these 50 best overnight oats recipes!